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Native capabilities, inside your UI.

Add an editor, PDF viewer or 3D through standalone extensions. Register your own elements through a pure C ABI, with styling, events and a defined drawing lifecycle.

Version 3.61.7

Add professional controls with native code

Code editing, PDF viewing and 3D scenes have standalone extensions. Package the modules and resources your app uses. Editing source text in the editor does not change KUI’s Lua scripting model.

Standalone editor extension

A pure C ABI for your own native capabilities

DOM element extensions use the kuiext_* host protocol with plugin information, initialization, element registration and shutdown entry points. Elements can implement measurement, painting and event behavior. Follow the current public headers and SDK lifecycle contract.

Extensions have deployment contracts

Build standalone extensions outside the SDK with find_package(Kui), checking ABI, architecture, runtimes, dependencies and assets. Media backends use the separate kui_media_* protocol. Include required assets such as the 3D material sidecar.

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